Write Your Own Remedio and Embody the Remedy
Write Your Own Remedio and Embody the Remedy
February 28th
IFCC-MARC Ballroom, 2nd floor
Our Lady of the Lake University
Parking is free on campus, park in Lot B
Write Your Own Remedio > 3-4pm
Embody the Remedy > 4:30-6pm
This two-part workshop is based on Xelena’s curative guidebook Lotería Remedios. Participants will write their own remedy & add gentle movement for their own healing practice.
The second component is a newly-designed somatic practice that explores icons of the traditional deck through restorative poses & guided movement. Participants may join one or both sessions. Bring comfortable clothes, water, and a yoga mat (extras are available).
These workshops are FREE for OLLU students, faculty, staff, and alumni
Community Participants may Pay at the Door a sliding scale of $8-$88 to welcome all income levels.
Contact Xelena for all info
https://www.xelena.space/contact
About IFCC Artist in Residence, Xelena Gonzalez
González practices the healing arts through writing and movement. She is a storyteller, dancer, and visiting author who centers self-love in her multi-disciplinary workshops for all ages. Her picture books include the award-winning titles ALL AROUND US (Cinco Puntos Press, 2017), WHERE WONDER GROWS (Lee & Low, 2022), and REMEMBERING (Simon & Schuster, 2023). Her writing for adults includes poetry, essays, fiction, and screenwriting. LOTERIA REMEDIOS is her collection of reflections, divinations, plant and animal medicine, and other tools for self-healing based on the time-honored game (Hay House, July 2024). A former librarian and enrolled member of the Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation, Xelena has become a sought-after speaker on topics such as radical self love, creative early literacy strategies, inhabiting story through music and movement, and reclaiming indigenous identity in Latinx communities.
Sliding Scale of $8-$88
FREE for OLLU students, faculty, staff, and alumni